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Cervical artery dissection goes frequently undiagnosed
- Source :
- Medical Hypotheses. 80:787-790
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2013.
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Abstract
- Cervical artery dissection (CeAD) is a frequent cause of stroke among young patients. It is unclear how many CeADs occur asymptomatically or cause subtle and unspecific clinical symptoms. We hypothesize that CeAD remains often unrecognized. Accordingly, the incidence of CeAD might be higher and the stroke risk lower than generally assumed. Lack of CeAD-indicating clinical symptoms is regarded as the main cause of missed diagnoses. We further hypothesize that underrepresentation of asymptomatic and oligosymptomatic patients in CeAD studies may have biased the association between ischemia and local symptoms in CeAD patients as well as the associations of CeAD with risk factors or co-morbidities. We finally hypothesize that symptomatic CeAD may be preceded by an initial asymptomatic phase. According to this final hypothesis, the time of onset of CeAD should be considered uncertain. The issue of unrecognized CeAD is relevant, as it may affect the associations between CeAD and putative risk factors. Furthermore, the existence of clinically silent CeADs may explain why recurrent and familial CeAD have been rarely observed.
- Subjects :
- Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Cervical Artery
Models, Biological
Asymptomatic
Stroke risk
Risk Factors
medicine
Humans
cervical artery dissection
Age of Onset
Stroke
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Disease progression
Arteries
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Surgery
Aortic Dissection
Dissection
Disease Progression
medicine.symptom
Age of onset
business
Neck
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03069877
- Volume :
- 80
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Medical Hypotheses
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2bbf251e17fd34c8af630662fe9bb844